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wmmmmmmmmmmm MORGAN'S MILLIONS AT TOP OF -THIS BUILDING 4V This picture "shows thV top stories of the new Bank of 'Com merce building in New York. J. Pierpdnt Morgan has picked out for his new offices the "forty-second floor, immediately beneath the odd-looking pyramid on top. The pyramid will be used by. Morgan and his banking house as a safety vault, for the storage of- millions in.cold casfi stocks- and bonds. . . . - If this idea of storing wealth high in the.air becomes 'afall gen eral it may:lead to a new type of daring, bank robber, .operating by. aeroplane. . . . ',--.' LEGAL TENDER Wherever you go in the whole wide world, There's ahvays one language is uhderstood, There's always one sign that will make you known, There's always one coin that will pass-as good ; Be it north or south, be it east or west, On land or sea be the path you roam; ' -1 No matter the time or the'pjace or the folk - 'Tis the kindly heart that wins a home. The kindly heart is the kingly sign . -' That bids the world bow- at your feet ; The human love in tjie human eye Is the thing that wins you a welcome sweet. ' The world is wide and its tongues are strange, ' But one is the hert of every land, And every man js your brother man If he feels your love as he grips ' " your hand. i o o The Sams. Old World. "Can't say that the world is getting a bit smarter," asserted gran'pa. "My grandson asks me the. same silly question that tiis father asked'at his age. Lippin cott's Magazine. o o , ' A repeating rifle is robbing the same place twice